Author: kartoone
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Leadville 100 – Travel Days 1, 2, and 3
Day 1 – Birmingham, AL to Wichita Falls, TX (800 miles) Day 2 – Wichita Falls, TX to Salida, CO (600 miles) Day 3 – Salida, CO to Leadville, CO (60 miles) The highlight of the first day was driving I-20 through East Texas where Kristine and I first met 11 years ago. 9 years…
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Lakeshore Trail and Vulcan Trail with the kids
I needed to have some work done on my mountain bike in preparation for Leadville – so I thought I would throw the kids bikes in the car and have a little fun on the Lakeshore Trail and the Vulcan Trail. Into the car went both the kids bikes, my mountain bike, and my road…
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Loving where you ride
My friend and teammate Jacob Tubbs sent me this link to a Fat Cyclist post from earlier this week: http://www.fatcyclist.com/2012/07/30/how-climby-is-your-climbiest-ride/. Even though it was a contest with a specific set of rules, what I got out of the post was that the Fat Cyclist really loves riding where he lives and was wondering if other…
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GCGP Day 5 – Newton County Circuit Race
2012 Georgia Cycling Gran Prix Overall GC podium. L-R Dan Holt (Team Type 1), Alexy Schmidt (Team Type 1), Brian Toone (Tria Cycling p/b DonoohooAuto.com and Infinity Med-i-spa). Photo by Barbara Dowde Three days, three podiums! This podium was for 3rd place in the 5 day stage race overall. Unfortunately I didn’t see anyone with…
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GCGP Day 4 – Covington Criterium – 3rd place
GCGP Day 4 – Downtown Covington Criterium Podium – L-R Dan Holt (Team Type 1), Oscar Clark (UHC/707), Brian Toone (Tria p/b DonohooAuto.com and Infinity Med-i-spa) It worked so well yesterday, I thought I would try it again. So as soon as the chief official said “riders ready” – the secret codeword for “go” in…
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GCGP Day 3 – Oxford Hills Road Race
Pro/1/2 Oxford Road Race podium (L-R Brian Toone, Oscar Clark, David Guttenplan) Podium! I ended up second after a long 70 mile breakaway from the gun. I was tired of missing the early move so I decided to initiate the first attack by attacking as soon as the race started. David Guttenplan (United Healthcare /…
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GCGP Day 2 – Gwinnett Civic Center Criterium
Tough race tonight. Team Type 1 again played it perfectly taking 1st and 2nd with Dan Holt and Alexey Schmidt. Here is how it played out. There was an early break that got a good gap, but I think it was missing TT1 so I was pretty sure it would all come back together, which…
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GCGP Day 1 – Road Atlanta Circuit Race
What a disappointing race. I missed the original break b/c I thought it was missing TT1, but in fact there were TWO tt1 riders, Dan Holt in the initial move and Alexey Schmidt in a bridge group with Mike Stone (Hincapie Devo). It was a large field combined with the Cat 3s and the fading…
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Rapha Rising Day 8
Family vacation time at the beach started yesterday – so I squeezed in a super fast climbing ride in Birmingham yesterday before driving down to Florida. I am not really a beach person at all, but my family loves it so I’m here to have a good time with them. One of the things that…
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Rapha Rising Day 7
This is just a quick post so I could upload the bazillion screenshots and photos from my ride today. I set all kinds of new records … one shortest distance record, but most of the records were shortest time to reach a given amount of climbing. I was pushing the pace really hard – and…